There have been several recipes and calls for same sprouting up on various threads so is it of any interest to have a dedicated page? Simple, relatively quick, cheap and (if possible!) healthy. Tasty would be good too. Safe and imaginative use of leftovers welcome .
OK so not musical, but Thread Hoppers need to keep those little grey cells fed.
1 packet of bacon (apologies hyper!), 1 bag of sprouts, 1 good eye tightening onion and a frying pan. Cut everything into flitters and fry in a tiny amount of butter. Delicious and yet strangely antisocial.
TheFoe's Piece of pizza- Ingredients; 2 slices of bread, tomato paste, cheese, onion, dried oregano Method - Grill both slices on one side, turn and spread with tomato paste, add grated cheese, diced onion and sprinkle with oregano Cook on a low heat (to avoid sloppiness cook in oven without baking tray, stays crisp). Ideal for quickness and penny pinchers.
Best Easy Greek Roast Potato Recipe: Take a really large potato per person, peel and cut lengthways and halve into big chunky chip shapes. In a non stick oven tray (if it's old, line with tin foil, it gets sticky and the missus will kill you if you ruin her tray) mix 1/2 cup (old fashioned tea cup, not a mug, you mug!) olive oil; 1/2 cup water; juice from whole lemon; 2 teaspoons dried oregano; 4 cloves of garlic - crushed or grated (not sliced, they'll just burn). When all mixed together simply put in potatoes turn a few times to get them all nicely coated, place evenly on baking tray and bung them in a hot oven 200 or on high if gas - and leave for an 90 minutes, you can turn them over after an hour but it doesn't matter if you can't be arsed - The best thing is they don't need pre-boiling, so you can just get them in the oven then bugger off to watch footy/go to pub etc. on your return you will have lovely flavoured roasties.
Roast veg soup. Sounds more involved than it is, sweet and spicy. Perfect for Winter. You need a big baking tray, lined with foil. Also a blender. Preheat oven to highest setting. Peel and chop up a butternut squash, 4-5 sizable carrots. Actually you can use any combination of root veg, but this is my favourite: I like to keep the flavours well defined. Anyway, add a sliced up red pepper and a few cloves of garlic. Lay out on the tray and drizzle with olive oil, sprinkle generously mixed herbs, sprinkle lightly chilli powder. Roast for 30-40 minutes. If you feel like eating some go ahead, it'll be smashing. But on to the soup:
Let the veg cool, then transfer to a blender and pulp, then put in saucepan. If you have a hand-held blender then transfer veg straight to saucepan and power away. Fill a mug with boiling water and dissolve a veg stock cube. Place saucepan of veg on stove and turn up to high heat. Build up soup volume by adding stock gradually and keep stirring. In less than 10 minutes you have a terrific soup. Dip in bread and enjoy.
If you are a carnivore, you could add some meat/chicken/turkey/dog/cat/goat/drummer/roadie/unwanted groupie and cook further, but, hey, don't mess with perfection man!
I'm so glad that people are responding to this thread and I promise that I'll come up with a recipe myself sometime. I just wanted to thank those who have made the effort, and even though I can't eat some of them, sometimes a meat recipe can be adapted to veggie, so keep them all coming. Love.
This ones nice and simple, best served on toast...... 2/3 eggs grated cheese (quantity to taste) 1/4 onion milk pepper
Parboil onions, drain saucepan then add eggs/milk and whisk (as per scrambled eggs) add pepper and grated cheese then slowly heat until the contents form a creamy consistancy.
Pour over toast and get stuck in, Ketchup is an optional extra.
A word of warning!! leaving the saucepan for the missus to scrub out can be dangerous to your health.
I know Carradale asked for "relatively quick and cheap" but please try this as it's my signature dish and I made it up. THEFOE'S WINTER WARMER! (2 generous portions)
350-400g Chopped (fat removed) lamb steaks 2 carrots thinly sliced 1 onion rough diced 2 bay leafs 8 teaspoons gravy granules ( I use Tesco) 1 pint of water 1/2 leek thin sliced handful of peas, ditto fresh rosemary 1 big potato small diced
Method - Put all ingredients in casserole dish, cover with water and add gravy powder. Mix well with wooden spoon and put lid on. Cook on low heat (Gas mark 4) until gravy thickens and carrots soft (they take longest to cook). This should take approx 2hrs, but check every 15 mins after the first hour, serve with crusty bread and a medium red wine. Hyper, you can substitute lamb and gravy granules with Quorn and veg gravy, the only difference is you know when yours is cooked when it starts telling you football predictions. Enjoy!
Makes for a perfect snack in the morning / lunch / evening or a drunken delight (munchies) for people of any class or foody 'disposition'....(Difficulty 8/10) Serving Suggestion
Method
Toast two slices of any bread, to your liking
Spread on your own preferred amount of veg-free, full fat / butter free / marg / lard / axle grease whatever onto each slice
Slice into two either in rectangles, or if you're posh, triangles
Serve Hot (Alternatively to serve cold just leave it bit)
Okay, I said I'd come up with a recipe, so I give you my super quick and dead easy but nonetheless scrummy chocolate cream dessert (invented by me!). Get yourself a tub of extra thick double cream and a jar of Nutella hazelnut chocolate spread. Now combine the two to taste (I don't mean stick all of the Nutella in all of the cream, it depends on how much dessert you need. It's a matter of trial and error, but as long as you have more of each ingredient available you can't go wrong; if it's too chocolaty, add some more cream and vice versa. You have to give it a fair old stir to get the Nutella completely mixed with the cream, but just remember that all the calories you're burning off with the mixing are going back on times 100 once you eat some. Once it's beaten into submission, cool in the fridge for a while, either in individual portions or en masse. If you want to be poncey, serve with curls of chocolate on top. Obviously there is room for addition to this basic idea; you could add the liqueur of your choice, but not too much, be careful that it doesn't become runny, or layer it with different fruits, or use to make a pavlova, or whatever. Personally, I just eat it as is! Enjoy! Love.
Simple as it gets: Ingredients - 1 tin of baked beans Preferably easy pull lid. Open tin, eat beans with utensil of choice. I prefer a fork myself. For a tasty treat several shakes of Tabasco Sauce can be added to the tin.{Other sauces are available}. Don't forget to recycle the tin. ps A microwave can be used to warm the beans, but that means having to wash the receptacle used to contain the beans.
Some of you are not taking this seriously , I think...
Mushrooms Any bit of blue cheese. Bread
Cut mushroms to suit.Cook gently in small pan with a little butter for a few minutes over low heat Add cheese and warm gently to melt. A little cream if you have any. A little black pepper. Cheese should be salty enough.
Tip on to toast or serve in small ramekins with crusty white bread as a starter
So simple and a winner every time
A few green peppercorns from a jar raise the bar again.
Version of the recipe below in colour supplement mag this weekend.
Sauteed mushrooms, crumbled blue cheese and baby or (shredded larger) spinach leaves stirred into just drained penne or similar pasta. Did try it and it was very good.
As it is near lunch time and I have still to eat, my mind is turning to late night posters store cupboard essentials. More later perhaps
Could use some of that frozen spinach which comes shredded in little rugby ball shaped portions. Would have to defrost in micro or au nature
Take two eggs, break into dish and add a little milk,mix this together and then lay a slice of white bread in the mix until bread is soaked.Then fry this in a hot pan turning it over when one side is done.When both sides are done spread strawberry jam over one side and eat while still hot.For a healthier option just eat a carrot!
THAI CHICKEN SOUP Ingredients: Whole cooked chicken, Four garlic cloves (finely chopped), 2 stalks lemongrass (chopped) Several red and green chillis (chopped including seeds), 4 star anise, One large ginger root (sliced) 2 chicken stock cubes, 1 tin coconut milk, 2 tablespoons smooth peanut butter 2 tablespoons Fish Sauce Optional: Red Curry paste, Potatoes, Carrots,Noodles Method: Firstly make the stock. Strip the chicken and put the bones in a large pan together with the garlic, chillis, lemongrass, ginger, and star anise. Cover with boiling water and add the stock cubes. Simmer for about an hour and strain. To complete the soup, add the coconut milk, peanut butter, chopped chicken and fish sauce. Check the flavour and add any seasoning to taste. If you need a little more heat, add some red curry paste. To make it more of a main meal, add any or all of the optional items.